«Вирішальний Момент» - Євген Халдей

Soviet flag flies above the Reichstag building as Berlin smolders, May 2, 1945

Josef Stalin (in white) sits among aides and advisers at Potsdam in July 1945

Khaldei in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin, May 1945

The most senior Nazi officer to have faced trial after the war, Hermann Goering is flanked by U.S. military policemen in the dock at Nuremburg

A couple, still wearing the yellow stars that identify them as Jews, after the liberation of Budapest by Russian troops in January 1945

A woman flees Murmansk, in northern Russia, as the city is devastated following Hitler's order to burn it to the ground in late June 1942

Mass suicides and killings preceded the Allied push into Vienna, 1945

Berlin, May 1945

Dmitry Shostakovich at the piano in Moscow, 1951